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Top 50 Cities---Quality of Life Index


http://www.mercer.com/qualityoflivingpr#City_Ranking_Tables

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Giving Makes You Rich!


Evidence shows that giving to charity makes you richer. Click on the image above for more on this.


Posted by Mike Fatah

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

WikiLeaks

http://wikileaks.org/

Iraqi Massacre on civilians without any arms on hostile intent.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Cryptome: Secret Databases and Over 54,000 files

Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.

http://cryptome.org/

Monday, March 29, 2010

The Raw Story

Click here for The Raw Story's Website.

Raw Story's goal is to unearth and spotlight stories underplayed by the popular press, in particular those which highlight betterment and open people’s eyes to injustice throughout the world.

Frontline PBS: Iraq

PBS Posted by Mike Fatah
FRONTLINE

Half of All Commercial Mortgages to go Under

Elizabeth Warren with Maria Bartiromo:











Chechnya

http://www.positiveuniverse.com/Places/Chechnya.html

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions | Video on TED.com

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions | Video on TED.com

Richest Criminals of the World

First of all, let me just take a minute and declare that the richest and sharpest criminal is out there somewhere without leaving enough traces for anyone to figure out how much he or she is really worth. As far as the list I have here, the most accurate figures can be presumed to come from the criminals who are either incarcerated, dead, or fugitives. The underworld is exactly that because of its quality to stay "under the radar." This is why I have not numbered the list. With that being said, I was nevertheless able to gather a substantial number of criminals who could all be considered as "big timers" according to anyone's standards, the list is not numbered, but I have attempted to arrange it in descending wealth order.

Here's the list (click on each person's name for more information):

Pablo Emilio Escobar (December 1, 1949 - December 2, 1993, Colombia): $9 Billion USD

> Medellín Cartel






Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas, aka. Carlos Lehder (1950-present, Armenia & Colombia): $2.7 Billion USD

> Medellín Cartel











Robert Allen Stanford (March 24, 1950-present, USA): $2.2Billion USD (2008)

> Financier








Susumu Ishii (石井 進 Ishii Susumu; 1924 - 1991, Japan): $1.5 USD

> Inagawa-Kai Yakuza










Joaquin Guzman Loera (April 4, 1957-present, Mexico): $1 Billion USD (Forbes #937)

> Sinaloa Cartel






Amado Carrillo Fuentes (December 17, 1956 – July 3, 1997, Mexico): $200+ million per week; Speculated Net Worth: $25 Billion USD

> Sinaloa Cartel


















Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (April 29, 1938-present, USA): $826 Million USD

> Stock Broker/ Investment Advisor






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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Pirates in the 21st Century

There you go, the guest said it himself that people don't really care about Somalia's problems. Imagine if someone comes along and is able to establish a connection between the pirates and Al-Qaeda? The US will definitely beef-up its presence without any questions, UK will follow, and some other nations would too. The problem would escalate and become another theater where the West is fighting "terrorism." No one would still give a shit of why these pirates are forced to do this. For the pirates, it's a matter of living and dying in an environment where dying does not seem to be a worse alternative at all, sadly.


P.S. You can double-click the video to view the full size as you prefer.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Plutonomy

I was really encouraged and at the same time disturbed to come across the letter from Citibank to its wealthiest investors that laid out how Citi views the United States' current democratic system as a "Plutonomy," where the wealthiest minority control the majority. I highly encourage anyone to read the article below and view the video clip after it.

Here's the clip:

You can double-click on the video to view the full-size clip as you prefer.






Democracy Now (click here)